Restalrig Parish Church Churchyard

Restalrig Parish Church, located on Restalrig Road South in Edinburgh, dates back to 1487 and was rebuilt in 1836 by William Burn. This Gothic church has a rectangular plan and consists of four bays. The structure is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and the walls are off-set with coping below the cills. An entrance porch was added in 1884, and a vestry was constructed in 1962.

The north elevation features an advanced vestry that is single storey and symmetrical, with squared and snecked sandstone and ashlar dressings. It includes pointed arch windows with battered cills and chamfered reveals, as well as buttresses. The nave has pointed arch two-light windows with cusped tracery set in splayed margins and battered cills, and a corner buttress topped with pinnacles.

The south elevation also has four bays, with buttresses made of squared sandstone between the bays that extend to the eaves. St Triduana's Aisle connects to the nave at the southwest corner.

The east elevation displays a gable end with a central three-light window featuring cusped tracery and clasping buttresses. The west elevation has a gable end with an advanced porch at the center, a three-light window with cusped tracery set in a three-centred splayed arch with a hoodmould, and buttresses. There is a round-arched doorway with a hoodmould on the return face to the left, and a crenellated parapet above. A three-light window with cusped tracery is located in the center of the gable wall, topped by a bellcote and clasping buttresses.

All windows are fitted with leaded lights, and the roof is covered with grey slate featuring moulded stone skews.

Inside, there is a gallery to the west with timber vaulting. The church contains a war memorial from 1922 by P R McLaren, a stained glass window from 1966 by W Wilson, and two lights on the south side from 1979 by S Shaw.

The graveyard includes a late 17th century and early 18th century table stone tomb, wall-mounted headstones, and classical gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries, along with a burial enclosure dating to 1802.

At the south entrance, there is a two-storey cottage with three bays, painted walls, and a dark tiled gable roof. The openings are boarded and blocked, with dormers at the front. A rubble stone wall surrounds the church to the north, east, and south, while a later brick wall is present to the west. The south entrance features square rusticated gatepiers with an overhanging cornice and a wrought-iron arch.